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Mithun B. Kamath Named to CityBusiness' Leadership in Law Class of 2025
Barrasso Usdin attorney Mithun Kamath has been selected for the New Orleans CityBusiness Leadership in Law Class of 2025. The CityBusiness Leadership in Law designation is awarded to only fifty legal professionals each year. The Leaders are nominated by their peers and then selected based on their professional and community involvement. The Leadership in Law Class of 2025 will be honored at a reception on Monday, October 6th at The New Orleans Museum of Art.
Mithun Kamath is a civil and criminal litigator with broad experience in government and internal investigations and appellate matters. His practice focuses on securities litigation, insurance defense, and public law matters, and his experience includes representing financial institutions in numerous FINRA and American Arbitration Association cases. Mithun has also been appointed to the Eastern District of Louisiana Office of the Federal Public Defender Criminal Justice Act panel, through which he defends individuals who are financially unable to obtain adequate representation in federal criminal cases.
He joined the firm after serving as Chief Administrative Officer & Assistant District Attorney for the Orleans Parish District Attorney, where he directed the operations of the office and focused on appellate matters. He has argued at the Louisiana Supreme Court, Louisiana Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal, and the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Mithun obtained his J.D. from Columbia Law School and B.A. from Tulane University. While in law school, Mithun served on the Columbia Journal of European Law and was involved in the Columbia Society of International Law. Now back at home, Mithun is an Adjunct Professor at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, where he teaches “The Intersection of Law, Policy & Politics.”
From 2018 to 2021, Mithun helped launch and was the first Executive Director of the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans’ Goldring Family Foundation Center for Jewish-Multicultural Affairs, an innovative in-house initiative that contains all of the Federation’s external affairs programming. He was also Staff Counsel and Director of Governmental Affairs & External Partnerships at the Federation, a role in which he focused on in-house legal matters, political outreach, community relations, advocacy, and revenue generation.
